Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

2018-12-03 Thread Dick Steffens
On 12/3/18 12:48 AM, Ben Koenig wrote: My build order for VirtualBox using the SBo scripts would be as follows: 1) acpica 2) virtualbox-kernel 3) virtualbox At this point I would test to make sure everything is working. If yes, build and install virtualbox-extension-pack for other features.

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

2018-12-02 Thread Ben Koenig
My build order for VirtualBox using the SBo scripts would be as follows: 1) acpica 2) virtualbox-kernel 3) virtualbox At this point I would test to make sure everything is working. If yes, build and install virtualbox-extension-pack for other features. You don't need the 'addon' packages, those

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

2018-12-02 Thread Tomas K
This is turning into general discussion - still I see the original point of this email tread in a need to reuse existing VirtualBox virtual machine image/installation. So it makes little sense to try do anything but VirtualBox. Often, the decision to use vBox was made decade or even longer ago.

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

2018-12-02 Thread Chuck Hast
-Ed I use qemu for dos stuff (Motorola radio programming software that is so old that it is almost machine specific, qemu lets you tweak the thing until it decides to run The Windows 10 VM started out as a windows 7 which got upgraded. I used VMWare ESXi while working at a job to hold VM's

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

2018-12-02 Thread King Beowulf
On 12/2/18 6:13 AM, Chuck Hast wrote: > I see all of this and wonder if you have given thought to VMWare Player, > for personal use it is > free, I use it all of the time when I cannot get something to run under > Wine, it sees the USB > stuff quite well. > > I have not had issues with it seeing

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

2018-12-02 Thread Chuck Hast
I see all of this and wonder if you have given thought to VMWare Player, for personal use it is free, I use it all of the time when I cannot get something to run under Wine, it sees the USB stuff quite well. I have not had issues with it seeing devices. I use it to program radios, I am running

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

2018-12-01 Thread King Beowulf
On 12/1/18 2:51 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: ---snip--- I can successfully scan individual files from the command line. > > I also installed clamtk, since that's what I'm used to using. >     From the KDE menu I can find "Run clamtk" from the search menu. > However, it doesn't run. I suspect I need

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

2018-12-01 Thread King Beowulf
On 12/1/18 1:26 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 12/1/18 1:21 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >> On Sat, 1 Dec 2018, Dick Steffens wrote: >> >>> Once I get to VirtualBox, I note that this is the open source >>> version. For >>> the laptop, that's probably okay. But for my "work" machine, I need to >>> have

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

2018-12-01 Thread Dick Steffens
On 11/28/18 9:29 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: I'm honestly too lazy to type out an entire walkthrough so here are a couple links to the community documentation and a video I tossed together. How to do the thing: https://slackbuilds.org/howto/ Fun fact: I rarely have a question that has not already

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

2018-12-01 Thread Dick Steffens
On 12/1/18 2:06 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 1 Dec 2018, Dick Steffens wrote: I don't know. I haven't studied QEMU enough. It's worth a look, but it would me rebuilding my virtual machines, which I wouldn't have to do with VirtualBox.   Was a thought. If you have time and inclination

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

2018-12-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 1 Dec 2018, Dick Steffens wrote: I don't know. I haven't studied QEMU enough. It's worth a look, but it would me rebuilding my virtual machines, which I wouldn't have to do with VirtualBox. Was a thought. If you have time and inclination here's the QEMU manual info on USB

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

2018-12-01 Thread Dick Steffens
On 12/1/18 1:21 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 1 Dec 2018, Dick Steffens wrote: Once I get to VirtualBox, I note that this is the open source version. For the laptop, that's probably okay. But for my "work" machine, I need to have USB functionality that is only in the Oracle provided

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

2018-12-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 1 Dec 2018, Dick Steffens wrote: Once I get to VirtualBox, I note that this is the open source version. For the laptop, that's probably okay. But for my "work" machine, I need to have USB functionality that is only in the Oracle provided version. I use a program only available for

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

2018-12-01 Thread Dick Steffens
On 11/28/18 9:29 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: I'm honestly too lazy to type out an entire walkthrough so here are a couple links to the community documentation and a video I tossed together. How to do the thing: https://slackbuilds.org/howto/ Fun fact: I rarely have a question that has not already

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

2018-11-28 Thread Dick Steffens
On 11/28/18 9:29 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: I'm honestly too lazy to type out an entire walkthrough so here are a couple links to the community documentation and a video I tossed together. How to do the thing: https://slackbuilds.org/howto/ Fun fact: I rarely have a question that has not already

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

2018-11-28 Thread Ben Koenig
I'm honestly too lazy to type out an entire walkthrough so here are a couple links to the community documentation and a video I tossed together. How to do the thing: https://slackbuilds.org/howto/ Fun fact: I rarely have a question that has not already been asked. https://slackbuilds.org/faq/

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

2018-11-28 Thread Dick Steffens
On 11/28/18 3:38 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: I thought you were running Slackware 14.2, You're right. the link you posted says 14.1. That version of virtualbox is also a bit older, looks like they have moved to 5.x. I've also never used pkgs.org. I haven't actually heard of anyone who does so I've

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

2018-11-28 Thread Ben Koenig
I thought you were running Slackware 14.2, the link you posted says 14.1. That version of virtualbox is also a bit older, looks like they have moved to 5.x. I've also never used pkgs.org. I haven't actually heard of anyone who does so I've never really looked at them. Before getting fancy with

[PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

2018-11-28 Thread Dick Steffens
I have a few old programs I still use from MS days. For some, there are no Linux equivalents. So, I use VirtualBox to run Win2000. I tried to install VirtualBox on my Slackware laptop following directions at: